Wall and Gates Around Yard to Church of St Helen is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1994. Churchyard enclosure.
Wall and Gates Around Yard to Church of St Helen
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-clay-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 May 1994
- Type
- Churchyard enclosure
- Address
- Wall and Gates Around Yard to Church of St Helen, Manor Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 188 267
- Coordinates
- 54.63557, -1.70945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The wall and gates surrounding the yard of the Church of St Helen in Bishop Auckland are likely from the early 19th century. They are constructed from coursed squared stone with dressed coping, featuring ashlar piers and wrought-iron gates. The square gate piers are set on small plinths and topped with low pyramidal coping. The wall is made of graduated courses of square rubble, enclosing the churchyard. The double gates are adorned with cross finials on the standards and dogbars. This structure is included for its group value with the church.
Local climate
Wall and Gates Around Yard to Church of St Helen receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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